Shareware Shopper

This is an early alpha version of Warcraft II, a real-time strategy game done by Blizzard Entertainment in 1995. This demo from August 1995 was shipped to several PC magazines for preview use. It was not intented to be given to the end-user. Today, you’re free to try it, but Blizzard does not provide any support.

Regarding to the gameplay, it is still pretty close to the original game, but it already provides SVGA graphics, larger maps, a new fog of war and new units and buildings, even though you can use a few of them only. One interesting thing is that there are four types of resources: gold, lumber, oil and ore.

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Abuse is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com and and published by Electronic Arts in 1996. Even though the shareware version was released for MS-DOS, Linux and the Apple Macintosh, the retail version was available for MS-DOS only. However, since Crack dot Com released the source code and the shareware data as public domain around 1998, it is possible to compile Linux binaries from the sources.

One interesting thing is that the story is set in the near future, the year 2009. Even though we already have 2009, it was still far away when the game was done.

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Command & Conquer is a real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995. It is the first game of the Command & Conquer series. The story is about an alternative history featuring two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) of the United Nations and the Brotherhood of Nod.

In 2007, the Windows 95 version has been released as freeware.

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Abuse is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Electronic Arts in 1996. Even though the shareware version was released for MS-DOS, Linux and the Apple Macintosh, the retail version was available for MS-DOS only. However, since Crack dot Com released the source code and the shareware data as public domain in around 1998, it is possible to compile Linux binaries from the sources.

One interesting thing is that the story is set in the near future, the year 2009. Even though we already have 2009, it was still far away when the game was done.

This video was originally uploaded by SquarePulse, I hope you like it

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SimCity 2000 is a popular city building simulation game done by Maxis in 1993. This game got everything what Will Wright originally planned for it’s prequel, SimCity, but couldn’t because computers weren’t sophisticated enough. It has been first released for Apple Macintosh and PC MS-DOS, and later ported to several platforms like Commodore Amiga, Microsoft Windows, Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, IBM OS/2, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows Mobile, Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable.

There are also some subsequent releases like SimHealth, SimCopter and Streets of SimCity, which base on cities built in SimCity 2000. Even though they never achieved great popularity, they enabled the possibility to drive or fly through the player’s own cities.

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